WILLIAM FAULKNER was born in New Albany, Mississippi, on September 25, 1897. He published his first book, The Marble Faun (a collection of poems), in 1924, and his first novel, Soldier's Pay, in 1926. In 1949, having written such works as Absalom, Absalom!, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, and The Sound and the Fury, Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He also received the Pulitzer Prize for two other novels, A Fable (1954) and The Reivers (1962). From 1957 to 1958 he was Writer-in-Residence at the University of Virginia. He died on July 6, 1962, in Byhalia, Mississippi.
“I am in awe of Faulkner’s Benjy, James’s Maisie, Flaubert’s Emma,
Melville’s Pip, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein—each of us can extend
the list.... I am interested in what prompts and makes possible
this process of entering what one is estranged from.” —Toni
Morrison
“No man ever put more of his heart and soul into the written word
than did William Faulkner. If you want to know all you can about
that heart and soul, the fiction where he put it is still right
there.” —Eudora Welty
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